To answer your question: No, I CAN’T write enough about Lost, thank you very much. More ideas and questions have popped into my head since filing my recap last night, such as:
Daniel Faraday wasn’t seen during the 1977 portion of the episode. What happened to him? Will we finally see — or learn more about — the mythic founders of the Dharma Initiative, Gerald and Karen DeGroot? And then there’s this: The orientation film in the Hatch was dated 1980. I now have to wonder: Did Marvin Candle and company shoot that film knowing from the time traveling castaways what was going to happen in the future?
But enough questions. How about an ANSWER for a change? A number of you wondered what happened to Olivia Goodspeed, who appeared with Horace Goodspeed in the Ben-flashback classic "The Man Behind The Curtain." There was also the episode "Cabin Fever," where Locke had a vision of Horace building Jacob’s cabin, which originally was a getaway for Horace and his "missus." Most of assumed he was referring to Olivia. Well, word on the street is that actress Samantha Mathis decided not to return to Lost this season, and probably any other, for that matter. So, what happened to Horace’s first wife? Well, who ever said Olivia was his wife? Is it possible they were brother and sister and the cabin he was building in the woods was always for Amy?
While you mull over my theories, I’m thinking through yours. In my recap of "LaFleur," I asked you guys to send me your theories about Sawyer’s theory about the Island’s baby-making handicap. As it happens, the Doc Jensen e-mail box can only handle 1,000 emails — and I’ve received 700 e-mails already since this morning. A sample:
"My theory is that the Island’s anti-baby policy was a result of Benjoining the Others and helping them kill off the Dharma Initiative.That must have been when everything got off track. The war to whichWidmore was referring is the war that leads to the death of DharmaInitiative and his eventual forced exile from the island. TheLeft-Behinders and the Oceanic 6 were sent back to 1977 to stop thoseevents from happening or to change the outcome." –Lorena
"You have to remember you are dealing with two different groups. TheDharma folks were all killed by Ben and the Others. The Others thenmoved into the Dharma facilities. Two possibilities. One, the Island ispunishing the others for killing the Dharma folks. Second, the Otherscan’t have children because they live so long, either as a byproduct ofthe treatment or a condition imposed by the four-toed god for thegift." –Jim Laurence
Good theories, both. In my Doc Jensen column next week, I’ll give voice to more. Until then: Any thoughts on the above?
Any thoughts on where Rose, Bernard, and anyone not killed by a flaming arrow or buried land mine might be?
I really want to know where the other Survivors of 815 are. It isn’t just Jin and Sawyer left, is it??
Yeah I got a question. How does Samantha Mathis have something else to do besides LOST?
Could the fact that Ben wanted “lists” when 815 crashed mean that he was looking for time travelers, i.e. Sawyer, Kate, Jack, etc.? Maybe the Losties manage to get off the island before the purge, Horace turns the donkey wheel, therefore setting off the time skipping and needing a course correction. Was Ben waiting for the Losties the way the Losties are waiting for Locke?
@tia – could Rose and Bernard be the skeletons Jack found in the caves? They were last seen in 1954 – which would have been 50 years from the time Jack found the bones and said it had probably been about 40-50 years that they had been there…
good call about rose and bernard being the skeletons in the cave
As to the theories, I agree with the Island punishment theory. If the island can control who dies (on or off of it), and have healing powers, then it is no stretch to believe that it can decide to dispense punishment to those that it perceives to have strayed off mission (the purge). When you destroy life so casually, you will no longer be able to create it…
It didn’t used to be much of an issue (for me, anyway) to not see characters with small roles (such as Rose and Bernard) very often. That was then though. Now that the castaways are moving across the island…and time!…they really have to appear on the show more often. No reason to create more confusion by avoiding such a simple thing.
@kb23- good call on the Adam/Eve skeletons. I hope Darlton gives us a glimpse at some point about Bernard and Rose’s fate… Also, it is rather depressing to think that Sawyer and Jin are the last surviving 815ers (up to the return of the O6ers).
What’s with all the “Good” names? Goodspeed, Goodwin? One was with Dharma, the other an Other. Coincidence?
Mary: I had the exact same thought about “the lists” — that The Others had a list from the 1970s saying these people were coming. I also wondered if that’s how Ben knew all sorts of stuff about each person (name, occupation off island, family, etc.) — that a history was kept of them and passed on down the line.
did julia get a boob job from last season to this? look at her in that brown shirt.
did julia get a boob job from last season to this? look at her in that brown shirt.
to ty webb:
she’s always had good assets, from day one
DESMOND is Amy’s baby! We learn in the episode that Amy gave birth to a baby boy on the island, while any other Dharma baby was born off island (according to the useless doctor). And we know that, at some point, babies can’t be born on the island any longer.
That would therefore make this baby quite unique (a game changer if you will), unique enough maybe for the rules not to apply to him…Desmond! He would be the only person to have been cumulatively conceived and born on the island, which could explain his alleged ability regarding time and his special relationship to the island.
As we know nothing about Desmond’s past, Amy could have left Horace and the island with the baby early on and settle in Scotland.